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He was charged with abusing Anne, her childhood friend, and four other women.

The legal battle went on for years with Anne having to consistently make statement after statement from 2002 to 2007.

She told the Sunday Independent that this took a severe tole on her emotionally:

"For somebody in the box, a victim of sexual abuse, all you have on you are pairs of eyes. It is a really difficult thing to do. It's like your skin is flayed off you. That's how raw it is.

"You are literally skinned alive by a savage legal system."

Anne believes that Cooke was fully capable of murdering missing boy, Philip Cairns whose 30-year-old case has taken new strides after it was recently reported that Cooke may have killed him in his pirate radio station.

Paedophile Eamon Cooke and missing schoolboy Philip Cairns

Anne said: "Knowing Cooke as we did, and knowing his nature, and knowing about his bunkers and his underground places, my imagination has always gone there.

"My imagination with Cooke has always gone as far as child murder... because that was his capability,"

Anne hopes that Philip's mother may find peace in knowing the evil criminal spent 13 years of his life in jail.